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My Works in Localisation #

  • I think technology must be accessible to everybody, and the best way to make it more accessible is through localisation.
  • I started localising various projects to Tamil with this goal in mind.
  • You can find some of my work in localisation in Weblate.

Projects #

Listed below are some projects I contributed translations to

  1. In tldr-pages, I translated some commands to Tamil. I also review and validate translations in pull requests over there.

  2. I translated Bottles (A program to manage wine prefixes and run Windows software and games on Linux) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  3. I translated Wike (A Wikipedia reader for GNOME) to Tamil at POEditor. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  4. I translated Collision (A GUI tool to generate, compare and verify MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 & SHA-512 hashes) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  5. I translated Rnote (Application for Sketching and taking handwritten notes in Linux) [Alternative to Xournal++] to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  6. I translated Mousai (Linux alternative to Shazam to Identify songs in seconds) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  7. I translated Blur-my-shell (A GNOME (Desktop Environment) extension which adds a blur look to GNOME Shell components) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  8. I translated Identity (A flatpak (Linux App Packaging Format) application which can compare multiple images and videos.) to Tamil at PoEditor. [August 2022]

  9. I translated Dialect (A translation app for GNOME) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  10. I translated Kooha (Elegant Screen Recorder for Linux) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  11. I translated Video Trimmer (A quick video trimmer for Linux) to Tamil using POEditor. [August 2022]

  12. I translated Flathub’s new website at GitHub to Tamil using weblate. The translation file can be found here. [August 2022]

  13. I translated Butter (Btrfs snapshot management GUI frontend) to Tamil using Poedit. [September 2022]

  14. I translated Flatseal (Linux application to manage Flatpak permissions) to Tamil using Poedit. [September 2022]

  15. I translated Arch install (Guided Arch Linux installer) to Tamil using Poedit. The translation files can be found here. [September 2022]

  16. I translated Amberol (A small and simple sound and music player that is well integrated with GNOME) to Tamil at GNOME l10n. [September 2022, March 2023]

  17. I translated cantarell-fonts (The Cantarell typeface family is a contemporary Humanist sans serif, and is used by the GNOME project for its user interface) to Tamil at GNOME l10n. The translation file can be found here. [September 2022]

  18. I translated Ventoy (Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.) to Tamil using Poedit. The translation file can be found here. [September 2022]

  19. I translated Extension Manager (A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions.) to Tamil using Poedit. The translation file can be found here. [September 2022]

  20. I translated Breathing (Breathing is a very simple application that guides your breathing pattern.) to Tamil using Poedit. The translation file can be found here. [September 2022]

  21. I translated Gradience (Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme.) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [September 2022]

  22. I translated Metadata Cleaner (Python GTK application to view and clean metadata in files, using mat2) to Tamil using Weblate. The translation file can be found here. [September 2022]

  23. I translated Atoms (An application to easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers) to Tamil using Poedit. The translation file can be found here. [October 2022]

  24. I translated Vanilla OS (A new upcoming Distribution offering on-demand Immutability and Vanilla GNOME experience based on Ubuntu) Components such as Vanilla-installer, First-setup to Tamil. [November 2022]

  25. I translated some parts of Vanilla OS documentation to Tamil. [November 2022]

  26. I translated Junction (Application/Browser chooser for GNOME) to Tamil using Weblate. [January 2023]

  27. I translated Workbench (Application to Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies 🛠️) to Tamil using Weblate. [February 2023]

  28. I translated Cartridges (GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [February 2023]

  29. I translated Sticky (Simple note taking application for the GNOME desktop) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [March 2023]

  30. I translated Homebrew’s Website to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [May 2023]

  31. I translated Parabolic (Get video and audio from the web) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [June 2023]

  32. I translated Bavarder (Chit-chat with an AI) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [June 2023]

  33. I translated Imaginer (Imagine with AI) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [June 2023]

  34. I translated Apx GUI (A frontend in GTK 4 and Libadwaita for Apx) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [July 2023]

  35. I translated Parabolic’s Documentation (Get video and audio from the web) to Tamil. The translation file can be found here. [August 2023]

Note: I maintain translations I started throughout the applications/program’s lifespan and it isn’t mentioned in the above list.

Other Works #

  • I contributed Tamil translations to freecodecamp, and I will continue to do translations there (I don’t have a public profile link to link my contributions in their Crowdin Enterprise Instance).

Profiles #

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